Hi,In most of the windows 2003 storage server reported vuln for Multiple Vendor RPC portmapper Access Restriction Bypass by Nessus and recommended solutions is "Apply the relevant patch from the referenced documents for EMC LegatoNetworker and IBM Informix Dynamic Server. If a different applicationis being used, contact the vendor for a fix."Unable to understand the fix....

Does RPC port mapper 111 is used by Storage ...?looking for disabling the port thru registry if any...?

Not quite following your first paragraph (I think wording was a little fuzzy in the first sentence, but I think you're saying your 2003 storage servers are all reporting this), but port 111 generally shouldn't be available to the internet. Why not just restrict it at the firewall (in Windows firewall, at least)? I'd like to 'assume' that it's not open to the internet, but if it is, I'd suggest blocking it.

"Port 111 is used by the port mapper service. This is a service, normally used in commercial client-server scenarios, that allows an inquiring service to determine what software has been mapped to various ports so that they can communicate. Typically it is used to allow network hosts to communicate with resources available on a server.

Calls to port 111 are not accessible from the internet unless your firewall allows them. It would be dangerous to do so and your firewall should not be setup to forward port 111 unless you know what you are doing."

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